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My friend Daulton recommended this adventure story to me, and it was awesome! 
AIRBORN by Kenneth Oppel
This book is set in the imaginary past, where a young teenage boy named Matt Cruse works on an airship. He hopes to be an airship pilot someday, but so far he is still just working as a cabin boy. The giant airships transport passengers and cargo across both land and water (presumably airplanes were never invented in this world.) The airships are kept aloft using huge balloons filled with a gas called “hydrium” that is even lighter than Helium or Hydrogen. Matt Cruse lives aboard the ship Aurora, so when pirates attack the airship, he is devastaed, especially when a freak storm causes the airship to make an emergency landing on a deserted island in the middle of the ocean. Along with a spunky passenger named Kate who is determined to prove that her grandfather's mysterious journals are true, Matt sets out into the forest to explore, even though the Captain has strictly forbidden it. This book was an amazing and complex adventure story and I highly recommend it. The library owns the book and the book-on-CD. The narration from FULL CAST AUDIO is like listening to the movie version from another room, and it really brings an adventurous story like this one to life in your imagination.
I just read on the author’s website about a sequel called Skybreaker. I can’t wait to check it out next!